Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 11:33:15 am
MSNBC Video This is me, just shaking my head at the absolutely demented, ongoing Republican conspiracy theories about the Benghazi attack, as John McCain snaps at David Gregory on Meet the Press for daring to ask exactly what McCain thinks is being covered up. McCain never answers, of course, because that ...

Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 2:37:04 pm
David Perdue was on his way to sneak in some surfing before work Thursday morning when police flagged him down. They asked who he was and where he was headed, then sent him on his way. Seconds later, Perdue's attorney said, a Torrance police cruiser slammed into his pickup and ...

Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:20:59 pm
Add this to the increasing marginalization of radical anti-Muslim views: A Catholic diocese in Massachusetts today rescinded its invitation to Robert Spencer, a prominent anti-Muslim writer and activist, to speak about Islam at an upcoming conference. "Although the intention of the conference organizers was to have a presenter on Islam ...

Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 11:29:17 am
Following up on our previous post about the white supremacist hate group discovered to be sponsoring "Gun Appreciation Day," the organizers may have removed "American Third Position" from their sponsor list, but A3P is not the only racist hate group on that list. LGF contributor Gus noticed another interesting sponsor: Whiteout ...

Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 12:44:46 pm
After the President's remarks on the fiscal cliff this afternoon, I switched on C-SPAN to watch one Republican after another take the Senate podium to complain bitterly about the President's "insults." John McCain was especially outraged about Obama's "jokes." Here's the video; apparently all of this whining about their precious ...

Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 10:33:18 am
Roy Edroso takes a run around the right wing blogosphere to see their reaction to the Newtown massacre, and discovers that every single one of them is chanting MOAR GUNZ! MOAR GUNZ! GUNZ ARE THE SOLUTION, NOT THE PROBLEM! After Newtown, Rightbloggers Agree: Guns Don't Kill People, Everything Except Guns ...

Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 2:39:58 pm
Here we go, folks. The American right wing is starting to push violent, overtly fascist European groups as models for the conservative movement. For once, the paranoid obsession behind this big idea isn't anti-Muslim bigotry (but it isn't far away, see below); Cliff Kincaid of "Accuracy in Media," the politically influential ...

Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 1:49:03 pm
Remember how hate group leader Pamela Geller claimed that her subway/bus advertisements about Muslim "savages" were only intended to apply to radical jihadis? Not to Muslims in general? Remember how she claimed she truly loves Muslims, and her purpose was to spread love, not hate? Well, you can forget all that. ...

Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 6:49:17 pm
You may have heard that Senate Republicans voted today to defeat a United Nations treaty to protect the rights of disabled people, but you may not have realized how completely insane some of the Republican arguments against this treaty were: How Unhinged Rhetoric Sank a Disabilities Rights Treaty in the ...

Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 12:26:06 pm
How to spin the wingnuts up into frenzied, frothing paroxysms of total rage, and have a well-qualified Secretary of State at the same time: Al Gore for Secretary of State! I first heard this suggestion from my friend David Greenberg, the historian who writes for Slate, and I thought, nahhh. ...

Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:42:38 pm
Stuart Stevens was the Big Kahuna for the Mitt Romney campaign, and his opinion piece today in the Washington Post is a fitting epitaph, demonstrating again the absolutely tone deaf nature of Romney's pitch: Mitt Romney: A Good Man. the Right Fight. Stevens is mainly concerned with shoring up his reputation, ...

Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:13:12 am
If you thought the Republican Party might have finally been so embarrassed by their attempts to inflate the Benghazi attack into a huge scandal that they were starting to back away from this ridiculous mess, think again. Right wingers are apparently not finished embarrassing themselves yet: John McCain 'Troubled' by ...

Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 2:29:30 pm
CBS News has obtained the talking points prepared by the CIA for Susan Rice following the Benghazi attack, and of course there are no surprises -- Rice simply passed on the information she was given by the CIA: CIA Talking Points for Susan Rice Called Benghazi Attack 'Spontaneously Inspired' by ...

Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:36:52 pm
At today's press conference, President Obama strongly defended UN Ambassador Susan Rice against the scurrilous attacks from John McCain and Lindsey Graham: Whoever writes the headlines for Fox Nation (the knuckle-dragging "community site" of Fox News) seems to believe they have Obama right where they want him: Obama Falls Into Benghazi ...

Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 3:31:59 pm
Glenn Beck is despondent over the reelection of Barack Obama, and he's talking apocalypse. I know, he always talks apocalypse, but this time he's headin' out to the farm with a good supply of ammo. Today, Glenn Beck sought to make sense of the results of last night's election, beginning ...

Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 2:18:43 pm
I have to admit I'm making a deliberate effort to ignore the political world today, at least more than usual. I made up my mind a long time ago to vote for Barack Obama, and against anyone the Republican Party put up. I don't agree with everything Obama has done, ...

Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 5:59:14 pm
I'm voting for President Obama because I trust him to do the right thing, and even on the issues where we don't agree I know that he will make his choices based on principles and what he sees as best for our country as a whole rather than based on ...

Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 1:10:59 pm
Nobody is as wonkish about polls as Nate Silver, and today he has an interesting look at what's turning out be an historic 'Gender Gap'. If only women voted, President Obama would be on track for a landslide re-election, equaling or exceeding his margin of victory over John McCain in ...

Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 5:40:58 pm
• Exhibit A: Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney with hate group leader Pamela Geller Mitt Romney and Pamela Geller About Pamela Geller: Pamela Geller is the anti-Muslim movement's most visible and flamboyant figurehead. She's relentlessly shrill and coarse in her broad-brush denunciations of Islam and makes preposterous claims, such as that President ...

Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 2:30:37 pm
PLANTS! That's what Andrew Breitbart used to yell, whenever I pointed out that the comment threads at his wingnut websites were filled to the brim with disgusting, openly racist remarks and wild, deranged conspiracy theories. All of those ugly comments were PLANTED! by devious liberals -- probably me. And as a ...

Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 2:49:16 pm
Click to enlarge Possibly the most important news of the year, heralding the emergence of the Ancient Ones from their long-sealed caverns in the depths of the ocean, or maybe not -- but this is the one story I was just dying to post while our database server was down. From ...

Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 5:30:06 pm
Today's wingnut outrageous outrage began at Tucker Carlson's Daily Caller, in an article by Alex Pappas titled: "Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion on Obama family last year, perks questioned in new book." Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion dollars on everything from staffing, housing, flying and entertaining President Obama and his family last year, ...

Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 2:58:50 pm
[Video moved to newer thread...] The schedule for tonight: 2012 Democratic National Convention Podium Schedule Thursday, September 6, 2012 "Americans Coming Together" Time shown as local – Charlotte, North Carolina, EDT (Photo: James Keivom, NY Daily News) 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM (LOCAL) Remarks The Honorable Kay Hagan, Member of the US Senate, North Carolina The Honorable Walter Dalton, ...

Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 11:01:45 am
The new Gallup tracking poll shows that the GOP convention and Mitt Romney's speech really got the voters all lukewarmed up. These results, based on Gallup Daily tracking conducted Aug. 31-Sept. 1, showed predictable partisan differences. Republicans overwhelmingly said the convention made them more likely to vote for Romney, although ...

Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 3:47:29 pm
There's a good chance Ron Paul's followers will do something crazy tonight, and an even better chance that Rand Paul will say something crazy. Also on the bill: anti-choice fanatic Mike Huckabee followed by pro-choice "moderate Republican" Condoleezza Rice. So that should be good for a little cognitive whiplash. Here's the ...